Minnesota

Kevin Kjonaas

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Kevin Kjonaas is an animal rights activist imprisoned as part of the SHAC 7, animal rights activists of the or...

Annette Klapstein

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Retired attorney and Valve Turner who acted with Emily Johnston to shut off Enbridge tar sands pipelines near...

Winona LaDuke

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Winona LaDuke is an Ojibwe economist, environmentalist, and writer from the White Earth Nation, a co-founder o...

Leo Laukki

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Leo Laukki, a university professor and editor of the IWW's Finnish language newspaper from Smithville, Minneso...

Michael "Rattler" Markus

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Michael "Rattler" Markus is water protector and Oglala Lakota from Pine Ridge, SD. Rattler's Lakota name is Ma...

CeCe McDonald

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Black transgender woman from Minneapolis who became an international symbol of trans resistance after being im...

Heidi Nybroten

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Heidi Nybroten, age 26, of Minneapolis, Greenpeace 28 - September 2019 Houston Ship Channel bridge rappel.

Dion Ortiz

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Dion Ortiz is one of the Standing Rock 6 and a protestor at Standing Rock against the Dakota Access Pipeline....

Eric Oseland

Eric Oseland was one of eight defendants known as the RNC 8 who were accused of plotting to disrupt the Republ...

Erik Oseland

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Erik Oseland was a member of the RNC Welcoming Committee, an anarchist/anti-authoritarian collective that orga...

Cortez Aaron Rice

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Cortez Aaron Rice, 32, was charged November 24, 2021 in Minneapolis with felony harassment / retaliation again...

Igal Roodenko

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Igal Roodenko was involved in leftist politics and pacifism, spending time during World War II in a camp for c...

Nathanael Secor

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Nathanael Secor, age 28, was one of the RNC 8. Pleaded to a misdemeanor; probation plus $200 fine.

Archie Sinclair

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Archie Sinclair, a laborer and a writer for Solidarity and The Industrial Worker, from Bemidji, Minnesota, was...

Carl Skoglund

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Swedish-born Teamster organizer; co-founder of American Trotskyism. Emigrated 1911; joined the IWW; founding C...

Julio Cesar Sosa-Celis

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Venezuelan national shot in the leg by ICE Agent Castro on January 14, 2026 during Operation Metro Surge — the...

Max Specktor

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Max Specktor, age 21, was one of the RNC 8. Pleaded to a misdemeanor; probation plus $200 fine.

Sigfrid Stenberg

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Sigfrid Stenberg, the manager of the IWW paper Alarm, from Minneapolis, Minnesota, was convicted at the mass I...

Eryn Trimmer

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Eryn Trimmer was one of the RNC 8. All charges dropped.

Mylene Vialard

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Mylene Vialard, age 54, attached herself to a 25-foot bamboo tower blocking a Line 3 pipeline pumping station...

Frank Westerlund

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Frank Westerlund, an IWW organizer from Duluth, Minnesota, was convicted at the mass IWW trial in Chicago, sen...

Matthew White

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Matthew White is an activist and participant in the George Floyd uprising legal repression cases in the United...

Bryce Michael Williams

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On August 25, 2020 Bryce Michael Williams was indicted with co-defendants Robinson, Turner, and Wolfe on arson...

Branden Wolfe

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Branden Michael Wolfe’s arrest stemmed from the mass protests and unrest that followed the killing of George F...